Hacker News on Saturday, 31 August 2024

Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

910 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 110 comments

Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI newsletter post presenting a 3-hour video coding workshop on implementing, training, and using LLMs from scratch.

Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator(martin.wojtczyk.de)

589 points by wojtczyk 2 years ago | 363 comments

A personal blog post describing a display bug in Apple's Calculator app that made the author initially doubt his eyesight.

Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained(old.reddit.com)

446 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 351 comments

A Reddit post explaining the 'buy, borrow, die' wealth strategy; the page loaded as a Reddit network-policy block page.

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video](tom7.org)

395 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 69 comments

Tom 7's project page for "Harder Drive," a SIGBOVIK 2022 paper and video about absurd ways to build hard drives that store data in unusual places.

Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky(theverge.com)

351 points by rvz 2 years ago | 615 comments

The Verge news article reporting that Brazilian users are flocking to Bluesky after Brazil banned X.

Did your car witness a crime?(sfchronicle.com)

265 points by danso 2 years ago | 555 comments

This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more(servo.org)

235 points by msub2 2 years ago | 18 comments

Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)(neustadt.fr)

231 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 56 comments

EU ChatControl is back on the agenda(digitalcourage.social)

219 points by rapnie 2 years ago | 171 comments

Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+(fortune.com)

205 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 197 comments

Routed Gothic Font(webonastick.com)

192 points by Rendello 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms(blocks.md)

176 points by darkhorse13 2 years ago | 68 comments

WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner(github.com)

170 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 23 comments

Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian(jonathancarter.org)

158 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 157 comments

Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen(ethz.ch)

149 points by bornelsewhere 2 years ago | 89 comments

Client-side QR code generator with SVG output(fietkau.software)

147 points by kentbrew 2 years ago | 27 comments

Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs(vt.social)

132 points by jicea 2 years ago | 36 comments

Making an atomic trampoline [video](youtube.com)

131 points by matricaria 2 years ago | 53 comments

My fake job in Y2K preparedness(nplusonemag.com)

125 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 86 comments

The Threat to OpenAI(wsj.com)

123 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 122 comments

Cassette Tape Archive(tapedeck.org)

122 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 11 comments

AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception(appleinsider.com)

114 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 107 comments

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks(loriemerson.net)

107 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 12 comments

Seeing America by train(washingtonpost.com)

106 points by howard941 2 years ago | 83 comments

Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

104 points by doppp 2 years ago | 51 comments

Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle(gizmodo.com)

101 points by rntn 2 years ago | 15 comments

Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management(docs.percona.com)

94 points by petecooper 2 years ago | 39 comments

Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech(texasobserver.org)

89 points by OhMeadhbh 2 years ago | 65 comments

Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS(datanami.com)

80 points by signa11 2 years ago | 33 comments

Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September(euronews.com)

80 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 33 comments

Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense(newscientist.com)

79 points by jandrewrogers 2 years ago | 52 comments

Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube(popsci.com)

71 points by geox 2 years ago | 69 comments

Lucee: A light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM(lucee.org)

69 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 25 comments

Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)(opiero.medium.com)

67 points by pierocapelo 2 years ago | 100 comments

About synchronous disk replication(cloud.google.com)

62 points by tosh 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022)(little-maps.com)

61 points by scottmcdot 2 years ago | 28 comments

Artifacts are now generally available(anthropic.com)

60 points by doener 2 years ago | 27 comments

Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone(ewritable.com)

58 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Alexander Grothendieck(theguardian.com)

58 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 32 comments

Sisk – Lightweight .NET Web Framework(sisk-framework.org)

47 points by mrcsharp 2 years ago | 30 comments

Landlords Face a $1.5T Commercial Real Estate Maturity Wall(bloomberg.com)

43 points by petethomas 2 years ago | 13 comments

Signals for Tailwind CSS (styling based on ancestor state via style queries)(github.com)

33 points by throwaway888abc 2 years ago | 37 comments

One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days(bsky.app)

33 points by alphabettsy 2 years ago | 11 comments

Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale(engineering.fb.com)

32 points by seanieb 2 years ago | 39 comments

Las Vegas police could boycott working NFL games over new facial ID policy(reviewjournal.com)

31 points by oneseven 2 years ago | 31 comments

Shine with Gleam(rockyj-blogs.web.app)

30 points by rockyj 2 years ago | 25 comments

Neo – Futuristic Matrix Messenger(mszpro.com)

27 points by leonry 2 years ago | 7 comments

Federal Appeals Court Once Again Rejects Blanket Gun Ban for Cannabis Consumers(norml.org)

22 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 3 comments

Radiance Cascades: A Novel High-Res Sol. For Multidim Non-LTE Radiative Transfer(arxiv.org)

21 points by jasonjmcghee 2 years ago | 7 comments

You've only added two lines – why did that take two days(mrlacey.com)

18 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 0 comments

Carbon removal plant absorbs CO2 at 99,000 times the rate of all Earth's oceans(thebrighterside.news)

15 points by udfalkso 2 years ago | 9 comments

Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals(nytimes.com)

15 points by yasp 2 years ago | 8 comments

Fred: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States(fred.stlouisfed.org)

15 points by hoerzu 2 years ago | 2 comments

I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – what I discovered(theguardian.com)

15 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 8 comments

Beyond logical replication: pg_easy_replicate Supports Tracking DDL Changes(shayon.dev)

14 points by shayonj 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art(newyorker.com)

14 points by eludwig 2 years ago | 26 comments

Safety First(surfingcomplexity.blog)

13 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 4 comments

An Ottoman Winter in Toulon(historytoday.com)

12 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 1 comments

An Ode to My 5-Year-Old Samsung Galaxy S10e(mbrizic.com)

12 points by CPAhem 2 years ago | 1 comments

Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas(hakaimagazine.com)

11 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 2 comments